Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Curtaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curtaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.00419, -8.87920
- SMR number
- GA128-045----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a low hillock in recently cleared scrubland. Very poorly preserved subcircular cashel (22.3m
NE-SW; 19.5m NNW-SSE) defined by a collapsed drystone wall that is obscured by field-clearance rubble.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 7 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.